Kitten Bonanza

Good Parenting: Exhibit 1 (overheard at work today)

• 6-year old: Mommy, why is that man dressed like a lady?
• Mother: That is a lady. She was just born with the wrong body.
• 6-year old: How did that happen?
• Mother: Nobody really knows. But she's working to fix it, and that's what's important.
• 6-year old: Okay! *runs up to obviously self-conscious woman*
• 6-year old: Hey! Miss!
• Lady: ...yes?
• 6-year old: You look really pretty in your skirt!
• Lady: Thank you!
• *Kid skips back to her mom, and literally everyone in the vicinity smiles*

• Mom: If you were going to kill someone, what weapon would you choose?
• Me: A dull knife.
• Dad: Why a dull knife?
• Me: You want to really mess someone up and make it painful? Use a dull knife. Sure, it's going to take a bit more effort, but it isn't going to cut. It's going to rip. It'll be painful, and if they survive the healing process will be a lot more difficult and painful. A dull knife expresses more anger than a sharp knife. A sharp knife is kind of the nice guy murdering tool, but if I'm going to kill someone I'm going to assume that I have finally snapped so I'd go for something painful and vicious.
• Mom: We've raised a potential serial killer.
• Dad: I don't know about you, but I'm proud of the amount of thought that went into that.